Jeff Walz, Louisville Cardinals at ACC basketball tipoff: Follow along with live updates

Posted by Admin October 9, 2024 Basketball

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Up next in the countdown to the Louisville women’s basketball season: ACC Tipoff.

Head coach Jeff Walz and forwards Olivia Cochran and Mackenly Randolph will represent the Cardinals this morning during the annual media event at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown.

Walz enters Year 18 at U of L looking to improve upon last season’s first-round NCAA Tournament exit; and his team has a different feel to it this go-around with eight freshmen joining five upperclassmen. It’s one of the youngest squads he has had since his 2010-11 team featured six freshmen.

The Cards went 24-10 in 2023-24 and finished fifth in the ACC with a 12-6 record. They fell in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament to eventual champion Notre Dame. The 2024-25 campaign tips off Nov. 4 against UCLA in Paris as part of the Aflac Oui-Play event.

Courier Journal reporter Brooks Holton and columnist C.L. Brown are in Charlotte keeping up with Louisville and everyone else making the rounds at ACC Tipoff — including Commissioner Jim Phillips, who will meet with the media at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. Follow along with their live coverage below:

Here’s a rundown of the ACC Tipoff guest list for today, which is split between women’s teams in the morning and men’s teams in the afternoon:

Wednesday morning

Boston College: coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee, T’yana Todd and Dontavia Waggoner
California: coach Charmin Smith, Ioanna Krimili, Ugonne (Michelle) Onyiah and Marta Suarez
Louisville: coach Jeff Walz, Olivia Cochran and Mackenly Randolph
North Carolina: coach Courtney Banghart, Lexi Donarski, Maria Gakdeng and Alyssa Ustby
Stanford: coach Kate Paye, Brooke Demetre and Talana Lepolo
Virginia Tech: coach Megan Duffy, Matilda Ekh, Rose Micheaux and Carleigh Wenzel

Wednesday afternoon

Duke: coach Jon Scheyer, Caleb Foster and Tyrese Proctor
Florida State: coach Leonard Hamilton, Taylor Bol Bowen, Jamir Watkins
Georgia Tech: coach Damon Stoudamire, Naithan George and Kowacie Reeves Jr.
N.C. State: coach Kevin Keatts, Michael O’Connell and Jayden Taylor
SMU: coach Andy Enfield, Chuck Harris and Kevin “Boopie” Miller
Stanford: coach Kyle Smith, Jaylen Blakes and Maxime Raynaud

The ACC Network will have live coverage of ACC Tipoff from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.

The ACC Network is channel 610 on AT&T U-Verse, channel 612 on DirecTV, channel 402 on Dish and channels 524 and 937 on Spectrum.

If you don’t have cable, you can access the ACC Network through services such as ESPN+ (SUBSCRIBE). ACC Tipoff is also available to stream via fuboTV (FREE TRIAL) and YouTube TV (FREE TRIAL).

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